I've got friends and family that depend on pre-existing condition coverage. Plus I've got friends stuck in dead end jobs because they can't go 90 days without healthcare (one of them tried to get Cobra and found out that it's damn near impossible to sign up for, at least with his old company. He's just had to live without health insurance for 90 days).
I want Medicare for All. Saves money, works in every country that tried it and covers everyone. 45,000 Americans die of treatable illnesses every year. I don't want to be one of them.
So yeah. By the time you're 40 (50 if your genetics are good) you'll start having annoying but treatable health problems. If you're lucky your job is good enough to afford to get them treated, but either way they'll slow you down and tire you out. And the responsibilities you got saddled with over the last 20+ years (kids, keeping the house maintained, wife/husband) will weigh you down.
Take care of your elders, you'll be that way too someday. And take care of the young folk. You were young one time.
Sugar was the a wonder food. Sugared cereals originated there. There were little or no diet drinks and no Atkins or Paleo diets. The big upswing in obesity started in the 80s.
and I'm not alone. Also, smog days (if you don't know, these are days you're not supposed to go outside to play because the smog is bad enough to impact long term health) have been increasing, not decreasing.
We've lowered the rate at which things get worse, but we haven't stopped making them worse. I'll take that over doing nothing, but I'd kill for functional public transportation (and no, sacrificing 4 hours out of my day is not "function". I swear, buddy of mine was convinced there was a bus stop right outside our work. Two seconds on google later I showed him closest one was a brisk 10 minute walk away).
with multiple, often interlinking factors, resulting in a world where black and white determinations don't hold up under even a little scrutiny let alone scientific investigation...
Naw, little porkers just need to eat less, amiright?
when the world doesn't need ditch diggers? Pretty obvious that it's time to figure that out.
And for all that say they'll be new jobs, what? I want specifics. Following the last big industrial rev there was about 80 years of joblessness until new tech came along. Anyone want to live through 80 years of abject poverty so your grandkids can someday have a job you can't even imagine after you've died?
it's called a "Beer Run". Walk in, grab beer, leave. In most jurisdictions you can't by alcohol after a certain time of day. So folks who want booze just take it. It's too common and too expensive to prosecute. The guys running the till are instructed to just let it happen and then fill out the paperwork. Every now and then one of 'em gets uppity about it and gets the crap kicked out of them, resulting in a workers comp claim (or worse if the Beer runner had a gun).
Go ahead and steal. If you do it a lot their Id you and prosecute. If you do it occasionally you won't impact their bottom line. Especially when you consider the cost/benefit analysis of not having employees.
Kavanaugh dissented from the ruling upholding net neutrality rules in 2017, arguing that the rules violate the First Amendment rights of Internet service providers by preventing them from "exercising editorial control" over Internet content.
The RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with this. If you've got editorial control then you're no longer a common carrier. Of course I'm not convinced the current Supreme Court wouldn't let them have it both ways. The above is so crazy on the face of it. "exercising editorial control"? ISP and phone companies don't have editorial control. They're a pipe. If they don't like that they can give up their monopoly to somebody who wants to follow the rules.
But over and over again science is finding that people's decisions aren't really their own in this area (and others).
If anything we're still swinging too hard towards the Personal accountability direction. Other countries with more social safety and support networks consistently out score us on every metric (except number of billionaires, we're tops there). It's puritanicalism, and it's never worked. Any more than trickle down economics does.
along with crime in general. Meanwhile fatal workplace accidents are increasing.
As long as there is murder there will be a city with the highest murder rates. The question is are we doing everything we can to stop murder? Of course not. We could legalize drugs tomorrow, treat the hard stuff as a medical problem and massively cut back on murder. But just because we're not doing everything we can to stop murder doesn't mean we should ignore or even de-prioritize workplace safety.
that stands out as truly special. Such a product is going to be a poor earner because the extremes you'll have to go through to stand out are going to turn off some viewers (to say nothing of censors in China).
When it comes to maximizing profit you can absolutely look at people and their tastes in aggregate form. Focus groups work. They produce a mediocre product at best, but it'll make the optimal amount of money.
Meanwhile in Kansas. I mean, when even Forbes calls you out on going too far into trickle down...
I don't think anyone threw in the pot though. I think they smelled the shit-sandwich that would be tax breaks and subsidies in exchange for very, very few jobs. You need Scott Walker grad levels of corruption to get away with that. It's like the Olympics. It's a disaster all around unless you tell them to take a hike and make them pay for their own stuff like everybody else does.
it's too obvious when you swing an election that way. The exit polls don't match and, well, we've got decades of statistics on exit polls and we know how they should match (e.g. even if they don't match exactly we know roughly by how much they should be off, meaning if you' cheat that way to swing an election you're probably getting caught).
In a lot of jurisdictions the company is responsible for carrying insurance to pay out these claims, but they have the "option" of not carrying the insurance provided they pay all claims as specified by the law out of pocket. That's why folding the contracting company works.
and the smaller contractor company can just fold and re-incorporate and walk away scot-free. It's the employee equivalent of the "layering" step in money laundering. You distance yourself from the bad things your company does.
who will be paying for this in the form of higher taxes to cover all the subsidies. It's like the Olympics, no sane person wants it in their city.
OTOH the other cities seem to have told Amazon to take a flying leap when they came calling ala Foxconn asking to be paid by the local government for a few hundred jobs, maybe DC isn't gonna roll out the money carpet.
Companies hire contractors specifically for cases like this. It's why it's cheaper to hire a contractor even when you're paying a contractor agency for the privilege. The lack of these kinds of benefits is why workers needed Unions. If the employees had families they're probably not only grieving but trying to figure out what they're gonna do with one less breadwinner. A worker's comp payout would at least delay that, maybe long enough to figure out what to do next.
If I'm getting surgery I probably _need_ surgery and for the most part I'd rather have a mediocre surgeon than no surgeon at all. Yeah, yeah, Physician do no harm, but if the harm's already been done there's such a thing as not making it (much) worse. Not so say you can't swing too far in the other direction ("Hi Everybody!" "Hi Doctor Nick!") but as long as he/she's got their license there's worse things.
What's that old quote, "Never let perfect be the enemy of good".
Sorry, but I'm not buying that not writing stuff out is the culprit. We've had typewriters for ages and anyone who's bound to be a surgeon was likely to have access to and use one. Hell I couldn't turn in a hand written paper 20 years ago in high school.
This probably has more to do with more people becoming surgeons. Similar to how grade averages dropped not because people were getting dumber but because we stopped shipping little jimmy off to the factory for a 3.8 GPA.
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I've got friends and family that depend on pre-existing condition coverage. Plus I've got friends stuck in dead end jobs because they can't go 90 days without healthcare (one of them tried to get Cobra and found out that it's damn near impossible to sign up for, at least with his old company. He's just had to live without health insurance for 90 days).
I want Medicare for All. Saves money, works in every country that tried it and covers everyone. 45,000 Americans die of treatable illnesses every year. I don't want to be one of them.
/. is aging. Healthcare is important to us.
So yeah. By the time you're 40 (50 if your genetics are good) you'll start having annoying but treatable health problems. If you're lucky your job is good enough to afford to get them treated, but either way they'll slow you down and tire you out. And the responsibilities you got saddled with over the last 20+ years (kids, keeping the house maintained, wife/husband) will weigh you down.
Take care of your elders, you'll be that way too someday. And take care of the young folk. You were young one time.
Sugar was the a wonder food. Sugared cereals originated there. There were little or no diet drinks and no Atkins or Paleo diets. The big upswing in obesity started in the 80s.
and I'm not alone. Also, smog days (if you don't know, these are days you're not supposed to go outside to play because the smog is bad enough to impact long term health) have been increasing, not decreasing.
We've lowered the rate at which things get worse, but we haven't stopped making them worse. I'll take that over doing nothing, but I'd kill for functional public transportation (and no, sacrificing 4 hours out of my day is not "function". I swear, buddy of mine was convinced there was a bus stop right outside our work. Two seconds on google later I showed him closest one was a brisk 10 minute walk away).
with multiple, often interlinking factors, resulting in a world where black and white determinations don't hold up under even a little scrutiny let alone scientific investigation...
Naw, little porkers just need to eat less, amiright?
when the world doesn't need ditch diggers? Pretty obvious that it's time to figure that out.
And for all that say they'll be new jobs, what? I want specifics. Following the last big industrial rev there was about 80 years of joblessness until new tech came along. Anyone want to live through 80 years of abject poverty so your grandkids can someday have a job you can't even imagine after you've died?
it's called a "Beer Run". Walk in, grab beer, leave. In most jurisdictions you can't by alcohol after a certain time of day. So folks who want booze just take it. It's too common and too expensive to prosecute. The guys running the till are instructed to just let it happen and then fill out the paperwork. Every now and then one of 'em gets uppity about it and gets the crap kicked out of them, resulting in a workers comp claim (or worse if the Beer runner had a gun).
Go ahead and steal. If you do it a lot their Id you and prosecute. If you do it occasionally you won't impact their bottom line. Especially when you consider the cost/benefit analysis of not having employees.
but exercise still helps, and being able to exercise better helps too.
The RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with this. If you've got editorial control then you're no longer a common carrier. Of course I'm not convinced the current Supreme Court wouldn't let them have it both ways. The above is so crazy on the face of it. "exercising editorial control"? ISP and phone companies don't have editorial control. They're a pipe. If they don't like that they can give up their monopoly to somebody who wants to follow the rules.
But over and over again science is finding that people's decisions aren't really their own in this area (and others).
If anything we're still swinging too hard towards the Personal accountability direction. Other countries with more social safety and support networks consistently out score us on every metric (except number of billionaires, we're tops there). It's puritanicalism, and it's never worked. Any more than trickle down economics does.
but at the end of the day bad air impacts your ability to exercise across the board.
when you can't get as much oxygen into your system you can't exercise as much. Cyclists (of which I am one) have known this for a long time.
I wish we could get the environmentalist crowd to stop banging on about shaving whales and talk more about stuff like this.
along with crime in general. Meanwhile fatal workplace accidents are increasing.
As long as there is murder there will be a city with the highest murder rates. The question is are we doing everything we can to stop murder? Of course not. We could legalize drugs tomorrow, treat the hard stuff as a medical problem and massively cut back on murder. But just because we're not doing everything we can to stop murder doesn't mean we should ignore or even de-prioritize workplace safety.
that stands out as truly special. Such a product is going to be a poor earner because the extremes you'll have to go through to stand out are going to turn off some viewers (to say nothing of censors in China).
When it comes to maximizing profit you can absolutely look at people and their tastes in aggregate form. Focus groups work. They produce a mediocre product at best, but it'll make the optimal amount of money.
You should tell them that, what with the highest median income in the country. They seem to be doing just fine.
Meanwhile in Kansas. I mean, when even Forbes calls you out on going too far into trickle down...
I don't think anyone threw in the pot though. I think they smelled the shit-sandwich that would be tax breaks and subsidies in exchange for very, very few jobs. You need Scott Walker grad levels of corruption to get away with that. It's like the Olympics. It's a disaster all around unless you tell them to take a hike and make them pay for their own stuff like everybody else does.
it's too obvious when you swing an election that way. The exit polls don't match and, well, we've got decades of statistics on exit polls and we know how they should match (e.g. even if they don't match exactly we know roughly by how much they should be off, meaning if you' cheat that way to swing an election you're probably getting caught).
In a lot of jurisdictions the company is responsible for carrying insurance to pay out these claims, but they have the "option" of not carrying the insurance provided they pay all claims as specified by the law out of pocket. That's why folding the contracting company works.
and the smaller contractor company can just fold and re-incorporate and walk away scot-free. It's the employee equivalent of the "layering" step in money laundering. You distance yourself from the bad things your company does.
who will be paying for this in the form of higher taxes to cover all the subsidies. It's like the Olympics, no sane person wants it in their city.
OTOH the other cities seem to have told Amazon to take a flying leap when they came calling ala Foxconn asking to be paid by the local government for a few hundred jobs, maybe DC isn't gonna roll out the money carpet.
Companies hire contractors specifically for cases like this. It's why it's cheaper to hire a contractor even when you're paying a contractor agency for the privilege. The lack of these kinds of benefits is why workers needed Unions. If the employees had families they're probably not only grieving but trying to figure out what they're gonna do with one less breadwinner. A worker's comp payout would at least delay that, maybe long enough to figure out what to do next.
If I'm getting surgery I probably _need_ surgery and for the most part I'd rather have a mediocre surgeon than no surgeon at all. Yeah, yeah, Physician do no harm, but if the harm's already been done there's such a thing as not making it (much) worse. Not so say you can't swing too far in the other direction ("Hi Everybody!" "Hi Doctor Nick!") but as long as he/she's got their license there's worse things.
What's that old quote, "Never let perfect be the enemy of good".
Sorry, but I'm not buying that not writing stuff out is the culprit. We've had typewriters for ages and anyone who's bound to be a surgeon was likely to have access to and use one. Hell I couldn't turn in a hand written paper 20 years ago in high school.
This probably has more to do with more people becoming surgeons. Similar to how grade averages dropped not because people were getting dumber but because we stopped shipping little jimmy off to the factory for a 3.8 GPA.
I am a libtard.
we're putting all our chickens in one basket?